Re: Prostate Cancer Treatment Poses Bone Risk -Study

From: madiba (down_at_thekraal.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:10:33 +0100

Roman Bystrianyk <rbystrianyk@gmail.com> wrote:

> But the Shahinian team, which studied the records of nearly 51,000
> cancer patients, found 19.4 percent of men who survived at least five
> years after anti-testosterone therapy broke a bone. In other patients,
> the rate was 12.6 percent.
Hmm so 6.8% difference, probably stat. signif though with that number of
patients. Yes, we'll need prescribe tabs for osteoporosis, although I'm
seeing more and more men declining anti-androgen therapy as the results
of radiation treatment improve. 

-- 
madiba

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